From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Nov 1 7:52:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from angel.algonet.se (angel.algonet.se [194.213.74.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 535DA14C92 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 07:52:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mal@algonet.se) Received: (qmail 13586 invoked from network); 1 Nov 1999 16:52:35 +0100 Received: from enok.algonet.se (194.213.74.88) by angel.algonet.se with SMTP; 1 Nov 1999 16:52:35 +0100 Received: from kairos.algonet.se ([194.213.74.18]) by algonet.se (BLUETAIL Mail Robustifier1.0.4) with ESMTP ; Mon, 01 Nov 1999 15:52:35 GMT Received: (mal@localhost) by kairos.algonet.se (8.8.8+Sun/8.6.12) id QAA19191; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 16:52:34 +0100 (MET) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 16:52:34 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199911011552.QAA19191@kairos.algonet.se> X-Authentication-Warning: kairos.algonet.se: mal set sender to mal@kairos.algonet.se using -f From: Mats Lofkvist To: ezk@cs.columbia.edu Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: <199910312211.RAA00014@shekel.mcl.cs.columbia.edu> (message from Erez Zadok on Sun, 31 Oct 1999 17:11:20 -0500 (EST)) Subject: Re: stupidfs - easily extensible test file systems? References: <199910312211.RAA00014@shekel.mcl.cs.columbia.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > And does anyone know if this has a chance being a standard part > of FreeBSD, and how it relates to the general cleanup of the > stacking fs code that seem to be on the "todo sometime in the > future" list for FreeBSD? What do you mean by "this"? My code will be fixed soon. The problem is that I'm forced to use synchronous writes to work around the VFS problems. I don't expect the VFS to be fixed any time soon. It's been broken for a long time and there aren't too many "customers" complaining about it, or it would have been fixed by now. It just doesn't appear to be a high priority for the freebsd developers. I think it's too late for 3.x, but now would be a good time for freebsd to put those fixes into 4.0, before it becomes the default stable version. (My limited VFS knowledge shows here, but what the heck..) What I wondered was if fist/wrapfs helps cleaning up the FreeBSD VFS code, is only using it as is, or if it is incompatible with what the FreeBSD architects have in mind. I.e. is it a good idea to build a new FreeBSD filesystem using wrapfs? _ Mats Lofkvist mal@algonet.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message